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A Class Divided

A Class Divided
Mar. 26, 1985
60 minutes

Almost 20 years ago, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. Frontline explores what those children learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today.

Producer(s): William Peters

Awards: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award Outstanding Informational-Cultural-or Historical Planning
Sidney Hillman Prize Awards


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